Sunday, September 30, 2007

New pics, part two

Here is part two...

Sadie dozed off on the way to the zoo, which made us happy. Otherwise, she would have either passed out in the stroller, thus missing all the animals, or she would have had a lack of nap meltdown at some point. In fact, as we left the zoo, we crossed over a body of water and found ourselves on Meltdown Bridge. Every few feet or so, a toddler hurled him or herself to the ground and kicked and screamed. Here she is, groggy and stretching.

And then she wakes up, realizing something is up. I think she knew we were in the zoo parking lot, because she commenced with the animal sounds right away...

We started off having a picnic lunch. Here is a Canada Goose who shamelessly begged throughout the meal.

And then, the real thing... We saw several elephants... They are red because they wallow in red clay mud. Sadie made elephant sounds the whole time...

There were some cute little "broken" eggs in which kids could climb. She was all over that...

This egg was inhabited by a woman. That didn't stop Sadie. She crawled right in and basically snuggled with a complete stranger. Luckily, the woman didn't seem to mind...

Chillaxing in an egg...

And out we go to the next adventure...

Sadie watches gorillas. First she said "It's DADDY!". Then she said "It's MONKEY!" Then, she proceeded to make monkey sounds...

Hmm... That really IS Daddy, isn't it? ;-) *ducks and runs from Redmond*

We finished up the day with a ride on the carousel. This was Sadie's first carousel ride. I have had the lousy luck my entire life of picking the ONE animal that doesn't go up and down. This time was no different...

A couple of other pics... We just bought Sadie the more modern Little People Parking Garage... I have a "vintage" parking garage from the seventies, but it's in poor shape. I have finally given up my insistence that I will only use the "vintage" original Fisher Price Little People toys. Sadie likes the modern toys as much as she does the older ones, and I fully admit that some of my original childhood Fisher Price toys are a wee bit... musty and damaged. She scandalized me at first by mixing wooden Little People, you know, the ones with no arms and legs, with the more "chunky", realized modern people. Eh, who says 1969 is superior to 2007.

Anyway, she has a slightly different use for the parking garage than I intended... And yes, she does hang out at home quite a bit in just a diaper. And her Crocs. She demands to wear her Crocs ALL.THE.TIME. I'm almost getting to the point of being absolutely tired of seeing Crocs everywhere I go. Yes, they are cute, but they seem to be the ubiquitous kid shoe these days.

1 Comments:

Zebras AND giraffes! I'm a so jealous! And if Kylie knew...she's walk to NC!! Our zoo for some darn reason doesn't have any of either anymore. The closest animal we have to a zebra is an Okapi. It's a beautiful animal but it is NOT a zebra! Every time we go to the zoo Kylie starts asking for the zebras and giraffes. Over the years she has acquired both in stuffed form but not seen the real thing. I'm determined to take her to a zoo that has them!!